that it is hardly poflible for them to live upon their lawful falarics, much lefs to fave fortunes out of them and therefore, whenever perfons in thofe fituations grow rich, one may pretty fafely conclude that they have been great rogues, and have either cheated the king, or oppreffed the people, to a great degree.

Many of the nobles of Canada retired to Old France after the peace; almoft all that could afford it conveniently and it would have been happy for the province if the reft had followed them. This is not only the opinion of many Englishmen, who are acquainted with the province of Quebeck, but also that of the Abbé Raynal, in his account of the European fettlements in the Eaft and Weft Indies. His words are these, in speaking of the success of the British arms in the late war. "L'acquifition d'un territoire immenfe "n'eft pas toutesfois le plus grand fruit que la Grande "Bretagne doit retirer de la profpérité de fes armes. La po"pulation confidérable qu'elle y a trouvée et un avantage "bien plus important. A la vérité quelques uns de ces "nombreux habitants ont fui une domination nouvelle qui "n'admettoit entre les hommes d'autre difference que celle "des qualités perfonnelles, de l'éducation, de l'aisance, de "la faculté d'étre utile à la focietè. Mais l'émigration "de ces étres méprifabies dont l'importance n'avoit pour base 66 que les coûtumes barbares, at-elle dû être regardée comme calamité ? La colonie n'auroit-elle pas beaucoup gagné à être débarraffie de touts ces nobles oififs qui la furchargeoient depuis fi long temps, de ces nobles orgueilleux "qui y entretenoient le mépris de touts les travaux ?”

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There are in Canada a few knights of the order of St. Lewis. Thefe are officers who ferved in the French army in the late war, and who obtained this knight-hood as a reward. either of their valour on fome fignal occafion, or of their

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long fervice, (twenty years' fervice being reckoned fufficient to give a man a fort of right to this order,) or perhaps by mere favour. These people are, for the moft part, very poor and very proud. Their honour is not hereditary and there are not many of them in the province; I believe, not more than a dozen.

To the Printer of the PUBLIC ADVERTISER.

SIR,

Feb. 25, 1790.

HEREWITH I fend you a tranflation of a long note in the account lately publifhed by the Count of Lally TOLENDAHL, a very eminent Member of the National Affembly of France, of his conduct in that capacity, and of his reasons for refigning his feat in that affembly in October laft, when the King of France was forcibly taken from Verfailles by the democratic party now prevailing in France, and was carried to Paris. This gentleman was a deputy of the nobility of the diftrict of Dourdans, and feems to be a very fincere lover of his country, and of a moderate and well-regulated fyftem of liberty, as well as tobeaman of great abilities, and very extenfive information on political fubjects. His work is exceedingly curious, and very worthy of the perufal of every person who has any defire of being informed of the proceedings of the French National Affembly; and it feems to me to prove, that the account given of the late proceedings in France by Mr. Burke, in the House of Commons, a few days* ago, is agreeable to the truth; a highly democratical spirit does prevail there, and the Members of the National Affembly are overawed by it, and dare not act in oppofition to it; and too many acts of a bloody, ferocious, and tyrannical nature, have been committed by the common people against the Nobility, or rather, Gentry, of the country, in many different provinces of the kingdom. Some of the most remarkable of thefe acts are specified in the note of which I herewith fend you a tranflation, the infertion of which, in your useful * On the 9th of February, 1790.

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paper, may not only ferve as a vindication of Mr. Burke's affertion, but will convey fome important and entertaining information on this interefting fubject to your numerous readers.

I am, Sir,

Your humble fervant,

VERUS.

F. M.

Tranflation of a Note in the Letter of the Count of LALLY TOLENDAHL, a late Reprefentative of the Nobility in the French NATIONAL ASSEMBLY, to his Constituents in the Bailiwick of Dourdans, giving an Account of his Conduct in the faid National Affembly, and the Reasons that induced him to refign his Seat in it, in the Month of October, 1789.

THE Count of Mirabeau, at that time, threw-out a cenfure upon me for baving reprefented, (as he expreffed it)" a few irregular and unfortunate proceedings that had lately happened," as being great and horrible calamities, and" a few Steps that had been taken as necessary precautions in the then unfettled fate of our country, from a want of confidence in the intentions of the Court," as being acts of inbuman ferocity.

This accufation, it behoves me to refute; and I, therefore, appeal to any impartial perfons to be informed, whether, in their opinion," the deftroying of houfes, and laying-waste of lands, and the murdering innocent and helpless perfons in many parts of the kingdom,without the fmalleft provocation; -as, for instance, the deftruction, burning, or plundering of no fewer than thirty-fix gentlemen's feats, (of which I had a lift in my hand at the time I ufed the words objected to me) in only a fingle province of the kingdom," might not

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justly be confidered as public and dreadful calamities, inftead of being treated as trifling and excufable irregularities, as Monfieur de Mirabeau is pleased to call them.

And, as to the other acts of violence which Monfieur de Mirabeau chooses to confider as necessary or prudential meafures, arifing from a want of confidence in the intentions of the Court; thefe, alfo, I prefume, ought rather to be called by the name that I have given them, of acts of inhuman ferocity, or I know not what can ever deferve to be so entitled. Some of these acts are as follows; to wit, in the first place, in the Province of Languedoc, Monfieur de Barras was cut to pieces by the mob in the presence of his wife, who was big with child, and ready to lie-in, and who died afterwards of the fhock it gave her :-2dly, In the city of Mans, Monf. de Monteflon was hot to death, after having been a spectator of the cutting of his father-in-law's throat -3dly, In Normandy, a poor, helpless, old man, who was a cripple with the palfy, was put upon a pile of faggots, which were fet on fire under him, and was afterwards left by his tormentors in that condition, and then removed from it by his friends, after his hands had been burnt-off:-and, 4thly, in the fame province of Normandy, a nobleman's landfteward had his feet burnt by the people, in order to force him to deliver-up his master's title-deeds;-and, 5thly, in the fame province, the unhappy Monsieur de Balzunce, (who had, with a generous and noble confidence, put himself into the hands of the people who came to attack him, inftead of endeavouring to escape from them,) was neverthelefs put to death by them with fo much eagerness and impatience, that, in fhooting at him in oppofite directions at the fame time, his murderers killed fome of themselves :and, 6thly, in the province of Franche-Comté, Madame de Battilly was compelled by threats of inftant death, and with a hatchet held over her head, to give-up her title-deeds, and